History Videogame / FinalFantasyIII

* BlackAndWhiteMagic: Naturally, this being ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''. The BlackMage and its upgraded form Magus are the primary black magic-users, while the WhiteMage and ''its'' upgraded form Devout specialize in white magic. The [[ItemCaddy Scholar]], [[TheRedMage Red Mage, and Sage]] jobs

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* BlackAndWhiteMagic: Naturally, this being ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''. The BlackMage and its upgraded form Magus are the primary black magic-users, while the WhiteMage and ''its'' upgraded form Devout specialize in white magic. The [[ItemCaddy Scholar]], [[TheRedMage Red Mage, and Sage]] jobsjobs can all use both schools of magic, listed here in increasing order of proficiency. In the remake, [[JackOfAllTrades Onion Knights]] are capable of learning and casting any spell from either school, as well.

* BlackAndWhiteMagic: Naturally, this being ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''. The BlackMage and its upgraded form Magus are the primary black magic-users, while the WhiteMage and ''its'' upgraded form Devout specialize in white magic. The [[ItemCaddy Scholar]], [[TheRedMage RedMage, and Sage]] jobs

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* BlackAndWhiteMagic: Naturally, this being ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''. The BlackMage and its upgraded form Magus are the primary black magic-users, while the WhiteMage and ''its'' upgraded form Devout specialize in white magic. The [[ItemCaddy Scholar]], [[TheRedMage RedMage, Red Mage, and Sage]] jobs

* AbilityRequiredToProceed: Both the [[{{Sizeshifter}} Mini]] and [[BewitchedAmphibians Frog]] spells are required for a few dungeons (the former also [[CharacterSelectForcing pretty much forces you to use magic-using classes]]).

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* AbilityRequiredToProceed: Both the [[{{Sizeshifter}} Mini]] and [[BewitchedAmphibians Frog]] Toad]] spells are required for a few dungeons (the former also [[CharacterSelectForcing pretty much forces you to use magic-using classes]]).

* BlackAndWhiteMagic: You can choose to be either a Black Mage or Magus to do offensive magic or a White Mage or Devout to use Healing Magic. Alternatively, you can pick the Red Mage, Scholar, and Sage classes, which all have access to both sides.

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* BlackAndWhiteMagic: You can choose to be either a Black Mage or Naturally, this being ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''. The BlackMage and its upgraded form Magus to do offensive magic or a White Mage or are the primary black magic-users, while the WhiteMage and ''its'' upgraded form Devout to use Healing Magic. Alternatively, you can pick the Red Mage, Scholar, specialize in white magic. The [[ItemCaddy Scholar]], [[TheRedMage RedMage, and Sage classes, which all have access to both sides.Sage]] jobs

** Pseudo random turn order. You're not likely to get enough Agility to make a difference on more than one party member, and the bosses where it really counts are pretty much all over the place on their attack order.** The end game gantlet has this is spades. [[CheckPointStarvation Zero save-points]] ''anywhere'' once you enter the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon? Check. All the mooks are BossInMooksClothing? Check. Actual bosses having ''99,999 HP?'' Check. The FinalBoss having a TotalPartyKill attack that requires you to have an obscure piece of equipment only gotten from fighting four optional bosses in the area? Check. The optional bosses getting ''three hard-hitting attacks per turn?'' Check... The list goes on and on. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Have fun reclimbing the lengthy final dungeon every time you die.]]

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** Pseudo random Pseudo-random turn order. You're not likely to get enough Agility to make a difference on more than one party member, and the bosses where it really counts are pretty much all over the place on their attack order.** The end game gantlet gauntlet has this is spades. [[CheckPointStarvation Zero save-points]] ''anywhere'' once you enter the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon? Check. All the mooks are BossInMooksClothing? Check. Actual bosses having ''99,999 HP?'' Check. The FinalBoss having a TotalPartyKill attack that requires you to have an obscure piece of equipment only gotten from fighting four optional bosses in the area? Check. The optional bosses getting ''three hard-hitting attacks per turn?'' Check... The list goes on and on. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Have fun reclimbing the lengthy final dungeon every time you die.]]

* JokeItem: The Gold Sword has an attack power of ''one,'' but can be [[VendorTrash sold for 10,000 gil,]] logically enough for a valuable yet soft metal.* JumpPhysics: Dragoons and their Jump attack, setting series tradition.

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* JokeItem: The Gold Sword has an attack power of ''one,'' making it the weakest weapon in the game, but can be [[VendorTrash it can be sold for 10,000 gil,]] logically enough for a valuable yet soft metal.* JumpPhysics: Dragoons and their signature Jump attack, setting series tradition.

** With clever item use, Scholars can also do this with their doubled effectiveness with items. It does get expensive, though.

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** With clever item use, Scholars can also do this with their [[ItemAmplifier doubled effectiveness with items. items]]. It does get expensive, is quite expensive and time-consuming to sustain, though.

For a long time this game was called the "lost" ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'', as it was never released outside of UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} for many years -- even after all of the other pre UsefulNotes/PlayStation games received at least one release. However, a [[VideoGameRemake remake,]] with more plot and characterization, came out worldwide on the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS, finally getting the game to a wider audience. The DS remake was again tweaked to improve some gameplay issues and has been ported to the [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS,]] [[UsefulNotes/AndroidGames Android,]] [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable PSP,]] and on PC via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

It's very much one of the most important games in the series, as several concepts in the series as a whole originate in this game. Changeable jobs, Moogles, summon magic, terrain effects, Gysahl, the Fat Chocobo, and so on all find their origins in this installment.

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For a long time this game was called the "lost" ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'', as it was never released outside of UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} for many years -- even after all of the other pre UsefulNotes/PlayStation games received at least one release. However, a [[VideoGameRemake remake,]] with more plot and characterization, came out worldwide on the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS, finally getting the game to a wider audience. The DS remake was again tweaked to improve some gameplay issues and has been ported to the [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS,]] [[UsefulNotes/AndroidGames Android,]] and [[UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable PSP,]] and on as well as PC via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

It's very much one of the most important and formative games in the series, as several concepts in the series as a whole originate in this game. Changeable jobs, Moogles, summon magic, [[JobSystem Freely-changeable jobs]], [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Moogles]], SummonMagic, terrain effects, Gysahl, the Fat Chocobo, and so on all find their origins in this installment.

* BewitchedAmphibians: Via The status ailment inflicted via the Frog spell.Toad spell. Notable in that a couple of dungeons actually require that your whole party be inflicted with the status in order to pass certain thresholds.

* SocializationBonus: In the DS version of the game, sending a sufficient number of mail messages to other owners of that game via the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS e-mailer unlocks the LethalJokeCharacter class and extra dungeon.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Bahamut is very weak to a Dragoon wielding dual Gungnirs. How weak? OHKO weak.* WeWinBecauseYouDidNot: Subverted when Goldor shatters a golden crystal that the Light Warriors believe is the Earth Crystal. It turns out it was a fake that Doga had made to provide him with gold.* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: ''Mortality.'' Great Magus Noah gives his student Xande the gift of Mortality. Said gift ends up driving Xande completely insane as he ended up unleashing the [[BigBad Cloud of Darkness]] on the world.

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* WeaksauceWeakness: Bahamut is very weak falls easily to a Dragoon wielding dual Gungnirs. How weak? OHKO weak.dual-wielding Gungnirs.* WeWinBecauseYouDidNot: Subverted when Subverted. Though Goldor shatters a shattered the golden crystal that the Light Warriors believe is of Light believed to be the Earth Crystal. It turns out Crystal, it was a fake that made by Doga had made to provide him with gold.* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: ''Mortality.'' Xande got the gift of ''mortality'' from his master, the Great Magus Noah gives his student Xande the gift Noah. Thus, he became frightened of Mortality. Said gift ends up driving Xande completely insane as he ended up unleashing dying and unleashed the [[BigBad Cloud of Darkness]] on the world.

* BrokenAesop: The DarkIsNotEvil and LightIsNotGood message is undermined in the DS UpdatedRerelease by [[WriterOnBoard extra lines]] in the pre-ending crawl [[{{Anvilicious}} going on and on]] about evil being defeated by "the ''light'' of hope." The Cloud of Darkness also applies, if only in name, though it's unclear what she was called during the flood of light.

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* BrokenAesop: The DarkIsNotEvil and LightIsNotGood message is undermined in the DS UpdatedRerelease by [[WriterOnBoard extra lines]] in the pre-ending crawl [[{{Anvilicious}} going on and on]] about evil being defeated by "the ''light'' of hope." The Ultimately subverted with the Cloud of Darkness, though -- she applies only in name (she's really a neutral OmnicidalManiac whose current tenure just happens to result from the Flood of Darkness also applies, if only in name, though it's unclear what this time), and she (or some other incarnation) was called during a byproduct of the flood Flood of light.Light as well.

* BonusBoss: [[spoiler: The guardians of the Dark Warriors, who will help in the final battle if freed.]] They are not completely optional in the DS remake, but the remake does add [[spoiler: [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere the Iron Giant.]]]]

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* BonusBoss: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The guardians of the Dark Warriors, who will help in the final battle if freed.]] They are not completely optional in the DS remake, but the remake does add [[spoiler: [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere [[spoiler:[[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere the Iron Giant.]]]]

** Strictly speaking, Eureka is optional. You know, the caves with about a dozen weapons that [[spoiler: Doga and Unei gave their lives to unlock, saying they]] were all supposedly necessary? Granted, climbing [[CheckpointStarvation Crystal]] [[ItsAllUpstairsFromHere Tower]] without them is [[TooDumbToLive tantamount to suicide]] (''within the context'' of ''[[NintendoHard Final Fantasy III]]''), but there's nothing stopping you from giving it a try!

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** Strictly speaking, Eureka is optional. You know, the caves with about a dozen weapons that [[spoiler: Doga [[spoiler:Doga and Unei gave their lives to unlock, saying they]] were all supposedly necessary? Granted, climbing [[CheckpointStarvation Crystal]] [[ItsAllUpstairsFromHere Tower]] without them is [[TooDumbToLive tantamount to suicide]] (''within the context'' of ''[[NintendoHard Final Fantasy III]]''), but there's nothing stopping you from giving it a try!

* DarkIsNotEvil: Present in the backstory, when the Dark Warriors have to save the world against abuse of the elemental powers of light. [[spoiler: They also can help out your party if they are freed, showing that they're apparently not inherent rivals to the Light Warriors.]] Also, the Dark Knight class.

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* DarkIsNotEvil: Present in the backstory, when the Dark Warriors have to save the world against abuse of the elemental powers of light. [[spoiler: They [[spoiler:They also can help out your party if they are freed, showing that they're apparently not inherent rivals to the Light Warriors.]] Also, the Dark Knight class.

* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Desch jumps into the Tower of Owen's furnace.]] NoOneCouldSurviveThat... But when Doga is looking for people to help the Light Warriors at the end, he pops up without a scratch, and in fact quite surprised that anyone would think he'd been in mortal danger. It just took him ''that long'' to fix it.

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* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Desch [[spoiler:Desch jumps into the Tower of Owen's furnace.]] NoOneCouldSurviveThat... But when Doga is looking for people to help the Light Warriors at the end, he pops up without a scratch, and in fact quite surprised that anyone would think he'd been in mortal danger. It just took him ''that long'' to fix it.

* OneWingedAngel: No matter how human an enemy looks, they WILL be a monster after the FightWoosh. The Cloud of Darkness is an inversion, in that she looks more human during the boss fight. [[spoiler: This is especially jarring in the case of Doga and Unei, who appear to be helpful, sweet old people... Until their in-fight forms reveal them to be horrifying creatures, regardless of their good character.]]

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* OneWingedAngel: No matter how human an enemy looks, they WILL be a monster after the FightWoosh. The Cloud of Darkness is an inversion, in that she looks more human during the boss fight. [[spoiler: This [[spoiler:This is especially jarring in the case of Doga and Unei, who appear to be helpful, sweet old people... Until their in-fight forms reveal them to be horrifying creatures, regardless of their good character.]]

** Dowplayed with the White Mage and Devout. While they only use White Magic for healing, among a pool of spells happened to be Aero and Aeroga, two offensive spells that deals Wind-elemental damage.

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** Dowplayed with the White Mage and Devout. While they only use White Magic that is usually for healing, among a pool of spells happened to be they can learn Aero and Aeroga, two offensive spells that deals Wind-elemental damage.damage at spell levels much lower than Holy.

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